US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Dec. 9 for "Combinatorial photo-controlled spatial sequencing and labeling" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,491, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Combinatorial photo-controlled spatial sequencing and labeling" was invented by Georg Seelig (Seattle), Anna Kuchina (Seattle) and Alexander B. Rosenberg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of labeling or barcoding molecules within one or more portions of a plurality of cells are provided. Kits and systems for labeling or barcoding molecules within one or more portions of a plurality of cells are also provided. The methods, kits, and systems may utilize photo-controlled adapter sequences, nucleic acids tags, and/or linkers."

The patent was filed o...